LEADER 02985oam 2200673I 450 001 9910811130503321 005 20240131141522.0 010 $a1-134-72823-9 010 $a1-315-88097-0 010 $a1-134-72816-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315880976 035 $a(CKB)3710000000106285 035 $a(EBL)1683674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001195181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12533848 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11156615 035 $a(PQKB)10516945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1683674 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1683674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10870110 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL603022 035 $a(OCoLC)879074594 035 $a(OCoLC)879454122 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131387 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000106285 100 $a20130331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA community of individuals /$fJohn Lachs 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge American Philosophy Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-94173-3 311 $a0-415-94172-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Dedication; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Intellectuals and Courage; 1. Intellectuals and Courage; 2. Reflections on Philosophy; 3. Teaching as a Calling; 4. Education in the Twenty-First Century; Part II. Issues for Individuals; 5. What Humans Did Not Make; 6. Valuational Species; 7. Improving Life; 8. Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life; 9. The Vague Hope of Immortality; Part III. Problems for Communities; 10. Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress amid Continuing Carnage; 11. The Significance of Purposes for Bioethics 327 $a12. Grand Dreams of Perfect People13. Researchers and Their Subjects as Neighbors; 14. Dying Old as a Social Problem; Part IV. American Philosophers; 15. The Insignificance of Individuals; 16. Santayana as Pragmatist; 17. Neoplatonic Elements in the Spiritual Life; 18. Peirce: Inquiry as Social Life; 19. Peirce and Santayana on Purposes; 20. Metaphysics and the Social Construction of Human Nature; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 410 0$aRoutledge American philosophy series. 606 $aCommunities$xPhilosophy 606 $aIndividualism 606 $aPhilosophy, American 615 0$aCommunities$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIndividualism. 615 0$aPhilosophy, American. 676 $a307.01 700 $aLachs$b John.$0186310 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811130503321 996 $aA community of individuals$94069726 997 $aUNINA